Who is Federico Giannini

Federico Giannini è giornalista, direttore responsabile di Finestre sull'Arte. Nato a Massa nel 1986, si è laureato nel 2010 in Informatica Umanistica all’Università di Pisa. Nel 2009 ha iniziato a lavorare nel settore della comunicazione su web, con particolare riferimento alla comunicazione per i beni culturali. Iscritto all’Ordine Nazionale dei Giornalisti dal 2017, specializzato in arte e storia dell’arte. Nel 2017 ha fondato con Ilaria Baratta la rivista Finestre sull’Arte, iscritta al registro della stampa del Tribunale di Massa dal giugno 2017. Dalla fondazione è direttore responsabile della rivista. Collabora e ha collaborato con diverse riviste, tra cui Art e Dossier e Left. Al suo attivo anche docenze in materia di giornalismo culturale (presso Università di Genova e Ordine dei Giornalisti). Per la televisione è stato autore del documentario Le mani dell’arte (Rai 5) ed è stato tra i presentatori del programma Dorian – L’arte non invecchia (Rai 5). Partecipa regolarmente come relatore e moderatore su temi di arte e cultura a numerosi convegni (tra gli altri: Lu.Bec. Lucca Beni Culturali, Ro.Me Exhibition, Con-Vivere Festival, TTG Travel Experience).

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Bourriaud's relational art to the test of the present. What the exhibition at MAXXI in Rome looks like.

Bourriaud's relational art to the test of the present. What the exhibition at MAXXI in Rome looks like.

It may sound strange, but it has been thirty years since Nicolas Bourriaud, it was 1996, began to establish the contours of his very successful "relational art" formula, and until today no one, before the exhibition that invades the second floor of t...
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The gipsoteca that isn't and won't be there: the plaster casts of the Carrara Academy still without a museum

The gipsoteca that isn't and won't be there: the plaster casts of the Carrara Academy still without a museum

For decades in Carrara, there has been an ongoing attempt to find an exhibition venue that can permanently house one of Italy's most important plaster cast collections: the plaster cast collection of the Academy of Fine Arts. Retracing, albeit briefl...
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Why do we say a landscape "looks like a painting"? A brief history of the gaze

Why do we say a landscape "looks like a painting"? A brief history of the gaze

A three-story mansion overlooking the Grand Canal, opposite the Fabbriche Nuove del Sansovino. It is called Palazzo Bolani Erizzo and from its windows, if you look to the left, you can see the Rialto Bridge. In the sixteenth century Pietro Aretino li...
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Crumbs for culture. If the government cuts 90% on MiC strategic programming.

Crumbs for culture. If the government cuts 90% on MiC strategic programming.

Crumbs for culture: a 90 percent cut, or 182 million euros instead of more than 1.7 billion, on the largest part of the Ministry of Culture's strategic programming, namely the resources of the Fund for Development and Cohesion (FSC): allocations that...
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Contemporary art of 2025 is women. What emerges from the ranking of the best exhibitions

Contemporary art of 2025 is women. What emerges from the ranking of the best exhibitions

Two pieces of data emerge, and extremely prominently, from the ranking of the best exhibitions held in Italy in 2025. Before going into them, however, a few details to provide the reader with a little context. Finestre sull'Arte wanted to repeat last...
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The dream of Villa Cordellina Lombardi, where Tiepolo's genius overcame decay

The dream of Villa Cordellina Lombardi, where Tiepolo's genius overcame decay

Dust, damp patches, dirt encrustations, cobwebs, walls covered with lime, Giambattista Tiepolo's frescoes hidden by heavy metal grates. Those who, at the beginning of the twentieth century, had entered Villa Cordellina, a splendid neo-Palladian resid...
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St. Mary of Vezzolano, the abbey that has escaped time

St. Mary of Vezzolano, the abbey that has escaped time

As soon as you go up to the Belvedere of Albugnano, a village of five hundred inhabitants announced by the vineyards that, having finished the Turin hinterland, rise from Chieri to the bald hillocks of the Basso Monferrato, a sign explains that this ...
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But do Italian public museums really not know how to make memorable exhibitions?

But do Italian public museums really not know how to make memorable exhibitions?

In fact, it had been too long since anyone last hatched an editorial about how despicable the exhibitions we see in Italy each year are. We were getting worried. Why has no one complained yet this fall about the vile garbage heap that is the Italic e...
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